Aztec godess of death,
wife of Mictlantecuhtli, both ruled Mictlan, the 9o and last Aztec world
of the dead. To this place went men and women who died from natural
causes.
She was represented as a skeleton or aperson with
skeletal head a defleshed body with a skirt of live serpents, with jaw
agape to swallow the stars during the day
Her purpose was to keep
the bones of the dead of past worlds, so they can be used to create the
human of this world. She presided over the ancient festivals of the
dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the
Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions. Mictecacihuatl is
known as the Lady of the Dead, since it is believed that she was born,
then sacrificed as an infant, so she used to eat little infants in a
sacrifice motive.
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